Jessa has been silent on her social media pages since the family’s TV show, 19 Kids and Counting, was suspended by TLC following the revelations that her brother Josh had molested five girls as a teenager.

Her last post before the baby’s ultrasound was on May 19, to wish her husband a happy birthday, which happened to be the same day that the allegations surrounding her brother Josh surfaced.

Jessa and her husband Ben are expecting their baby on November 1, which will mark their first anniversary.

Last week, Jessa was joined by Jill Duggar as they defended their brother Josh , insisting that he is not a paedophile despite having sexually abused them as children.

The two of the four Duggar sisters, whom a teen Josh allegedly fondled, have said that they have forgiven him.

Jessa, 22, and Jill, 24 claimed that it had been “mild, inappropriate touching” on the fully clothed victims in an emotional interview that was shown in the US on Friday night.

They claimed that the incidents, which reportedly occurred over a decade ago, were when Josh was “a young boy in puberty”, who had been “a little too curious about girls”, the sisters told Fox News Channel’s Megyn Kelly.

Since the story, that Josh had been accused of abusing four of his sisters as well as a babysitter, was exposed by In Touch magazine in the US in May, the family and its reality show have been called into question over its integrity after gaining popularity for the show about the evangelical parents and their 19 children.

While it is not clear if the show will be returning, advertisers have reportedly pulled out of their deals, and TLC have taken the repeat shows from the schedule.

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Josh, who is 27 with a family of his own, has since released an apology for his actions and quit his role as a lobbyist at the Family Research Council, a conservative Christian group.

“I would do anything to go back to those teen years and take different actions. In my life today, I am so very thankful for God’s grace, mercy and redemption,” he told People magazine.

During the Fox interview, Jessa and Jill revealed how they were outraged and distraught over the police report being published.

A tearful Jill said: “I see it as a re-victimisation that’s a thousand times worse.

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“We’d already forgiven Josh, we’d already moved on. They don’t have a right to do this. We are victims. They can’t do this to us.”

Jessa believes that the press used the family’s story for their own gain: “They didn’t have the victims in mind.”

The distraught sisters went on to say that they did not excuse their brother Josh’s behaviour towards them, or their other sisters and baby sitter, but they felt that the media storm had been unfair to the whole family.

“Josh was a boy, a young boy in puberty and a little too curious about girls,” said Jessa.

“And that got him into some trouble. And he made some bad choices, but, really, the extent of it was mild – inappropriate touching on fully clothed victims, most of it while [the] girls were sleeping.”

But Jessa did not feel that her brother warrants a label of paedophile, child molester or rapist because that would be an exaggeration.

She said: “I’m like, that is so overboard and a lie, really. I mean, people get mad at me for saying that but I am like, I can say this, you know? I was one of the victims.”

In the Fox interview, the sisters revealed that they were only aware of Josh’s actions after he confessed to their parents.

Despite the incidents, which occurred in 2003 and 2004, Josh was never charged with a crime.

The police did get involved after receiving a tip from a family friend in 2006, but the police found that the statute of limitations had lifted.